Deborah Solomon Corners Author Christopher Hitchens on His Sexual Ambiguity and His Love of Money

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Since he’s still promoting his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great and a known ball-waxer, sat down with the Times’ Deborah Solomon.

On his decision to include his Brideshead, Revisited–like schoolboy romances in his memoir, Hitchensexplained:

“There are still people who want to criminalize homosexuality one way or another, and I thought it might be useful if more heterosexual men admitted that they are a little bit gay, as is everyone, and that homosexuality is a form of love and not just sex.”

“No, I wouldn’t call it confusion. I’d call it a punctuated consistency.”

Whatever that means. Hitchens alsoadmits:

“Of course [I wrote my memoir for money], I do everything for money. Dr. Johnson is correct when he says that only a fool writes for anything but money. It would be useful to keep a diary, but I don’t like writing unpaid. I don’t like writing checks without getting paid.”